quotes.

When I feel bored I just search for quotes on the web, books, or any medium I can find. This is my favorite so far. Enjoy :)

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

‘Now you see,’ said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, ‘why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.’

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

The Twits, Roald Dahl

‘That proves you are unusual,’ returned the Scarecrow; ‘and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.’

The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.

Masterpiece, Elise Broach

It seemed like someone was always leaving someone, like that’s the way the world worked—people were born and people died, people left and people came. It was like the world was saying you can’t have everything you want at the same time.

Lena, Jacqueline Woodson

You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody will come back.

The Dear One, Jacqueline Woodson

I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed it’s beauty to them.

Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.

Rabbit Redux, John Updike

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m alright”. But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can’t get it off. That’s when you realize that sometimes it isn’t even an answer—it’s a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

And I saw them in silhouette. Running after the sun. Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

My sister showed this video to me, it is japanese. I don't understand the language but I do understand the story. It's about an old man who comes back to his old school.. and together they open the time capsule. And the rest of the story is.. you'll see at the end ;)

"It’s like looking at all the students and wondering who’s had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why."

"But it still felt like a good-bye rather than a “see ya.” The thing was, I didn’t cry. I didn’t know what I felt.
Finally, Sam climbed into her pickup, and Patrick started it up. And a great song was playing. And everyone smiled. Including me. But I wasn’t there anymore.
It wasn’t until I couldn’t see the cars that I came back and things started feeling bad again. But this time, they felt much worse." -the perks of being a wallflower

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying." -Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy)

How do you measure a year in a life

What do you want to be? This is a question that I've heard over a million time this year. This year is the final year of high school. This is the top of the top. For me, it is just a stage in a life. It's important of course, because you don't want to regret it in the future, so you do your best, you strike all that you've got this year, and just wish that you are the lucky ones. And in the end, you wish you were right.

One of my friend, my classmate will go to study abroad for a year, and he will be gone on Wednesday. This is also very sad. When you go to a new place, you have to adapt to everything, the way you act, the way you dress, even the way you think. As we all know, a lot of things can happen in a year. When I went to summer camp on 2008 for three weeks, that whole experience changed me completely. I have a different point of view, a new perspective, a lot of lessons, and even the little things made me into who I am today. I am a different person. That was three weeks. This is a question I've been asking myself "How about a year?"

Anyway, life's getting pretty busy and it's not going to be any less busier. Currently just trying to catch up with the people. Finding some interesting things to do along the way to this year. Hoping for the best, but I don't think I give enough effort into everything (yet, hopefully). Friends come and go, and each of them has made a huge impact into who I am today, I am sincerely grateful. Life hasn't stopped here and there are more interesting people to meet in the future. Goodbye, thank you :)

"So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
I'll show you something to make you change your mind.
Have you seen the old girl Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking, She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags."
-Streets Of London, Ralph McTell

And here it is, the song that tells you to stop complaining about how lonely you are and know that you are luckier than most of the people in the streets. This song keeps me alive.

Everything is Impermanent.

When I was small, I like to watch Anime. The one that I think was remarkable was Twin Spica. It is a story about a short girl who dreams to be an astronaut someday. It might seems impossible at first, and there are so many obstacles along the way, like how she passed the tests, how she was able to catch up with the physical tests, how there was no astronaut's uniform that fit her because she was short. Asumi (who was the main character) found her friends along the way, Shinnosuke, Shu, Kei and Marika.. they somehow managed to be friends regarding their past.. Then they made a promise to finish their education and to chase after their dreams no matter how hard it is.

Honey and Clover was also great. My favorite character is Takemoto. I like that scene when they all watched fireworks together. I remember that quotes (if I'm not mistaken which I probably am) "you might not remember the shapes and the color of the fireworks, but you will always remember the faces of the friends next to you." I like that quotes because it is relevant to me.

Well, that's all from me and my gibberish talk. mind my english, still learning. To sum up, I think friends do find each other, no matter how far, I think God designed it that way so we could never be alone :)

A day when everything is perfect, when everything will turn into memories, will eventually come. But I’ll probably remember over and over again. you were there and everyone else was there. The day we all searched for just one thing. – Takemoto

It’ll be about 10 more years until we’re sensei’s age. Then we’ll be a bit over 30. I wonder what kind of adults we’ll be? Even though it seems far off in the distance, tomorrow turns into today and today changes to that day. It’s all connected without ever ending. One day, we’ll be more mature too and it’ll seem as if we didn’t have a childhood. – Takemoto

All I have to say.

Gue dan teman-teman akhirnya berhasil menjalankan rencana Bali Trip kita! Kita akhirnya berhasil pergi ke Bali sendiri!! Awalnya gue kira mempersiapkan liburan itu mudah, tinggal tentukan destinasi lalu berangkat. tapi ternyata tidak begitu, yang harus dipersiapkan itu jauh lebih ribet, mulai dari perizinan sampai jadwal. Tapi Alhamdulillah semuanya berjalan dengan lancar. (cerita selanjutnya coming soon)
The University
Mengenai jurusan, sepertinya gue sudah tau bakal memilih universitas apa.. yaitu SBM ITB. Gue sudah mencoba searching internet kira kira sekolah bisnis terbaik apa ya.. ternyata (seperti biasa) mayoritas di amrik atau inggris. Kenapa? Kenapa bisnis? padahal orang gak sekolah aja bisa bikin bisnis. Menurut gue, bisnis itu merupakan bidang yang sangat menantang, karena gak semua orang bisa sukses dalam bisnis. Dalam berbisnis, dibutuhkan seluruh kemampuan dari seorang individu, gak bisa tanggung-tanggung, gak bisa separo-separo. Orang yang bilang bisnis itu gampang, salah besar. Lagipula bisnis itu bukan sekedar urusan dengan kontrak-kontrakkan ataupun uang doang kok, bisnis itu penting dan sehari-hari kita juga selalu berbisnis, entah sama temenlah tanpa sadar kita juga sudah melakukan bisnis. Analogikanlah seorang penyanyi, sebagus apapun tuh orang nyanyi, tanpa ada manajemen yang bagus, gak bakal bisa terkenal.

Artinya gue harus pindah ke luar kota. (sebenernya rumah gue juga udah di Depok sih jadi termasuk luar kota)

Senior High School
Sekarang gue udah kelas 3, kata orang sih harus serius. Kata nyokap juga udah disuruh kurangin jalan lah belajar ini lah bimbel itu lah. Tapi gue juga gak mentang mentang kelas 3 harus melupakan kesenangan duniawi maksudnya ya tetap bersosialisasi juga, main masih, bedanya gue kalo lagi belajar ya gak main, lagi main ya kagak belajar. Semua harus tetap seimbang, Yin and Yang lah. Sekarang kelas juga udah beda lagi, si Nabila udah naik level jadi ke kelas A, gue tetap di kelas B. Terus suasana kelasnya beda banget juga karena orang-orangnya diputar lagi.

Setelah Bali, gue merasa menjadi lebih mengenal teman-teman gue. Walaupun sering main bareng, dulu tuh mungkin gue belum bisa dibilang temen juga kali ya, karena belum benar-benar "mengenal" mereka. tapi sekarang rasanya gue udah bisa mengenal karakter mereka satu-satu dan ternyata berbeda dari apa yang gue pikir dulu. Dalam arti baik, gue merasa sangat beruntung. Gue bersyukur ada orang yang mau menerima gue apa adanya jadi temen mereka, masih ada orang yang mau jujur dan mengkritik gue, terus peduli juga.